Posted on 02/11/2014 9:50:04 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
There was a report out yesterday that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder signaled in an interview that 2014 would be his last year in office, but the Justice Department is now pushing back on that report, insisting that Holder’s tenure will continue indefinitely — although why the first-ever sitting attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress is so very at his leisure on the matter, I’m sure I don’t know.
“What I’ve said is, I’m going to be here certainly into 2014. Well into 2014,” Holder said, according to a partial transcript of the interview released today by the Justice Department.
The department provided the transcript to reporters in response to questions about a story in the Feb. 17 issue of the New Yorker by Jeffrey Toobin. In the story, Toobin writes, “Holder told me that he will leave office sometime this year.” …
Fallon later issued a statement saying, “The most the Attorney General has said is that he still has a lot he wants to accomplish on issues like criminal justice reform, voting rights and LGBT equality. He did not speak about his plans any further than that.”
What a tease. Anyhow, as Toobin’s interview also suggests, Holder is hoping to make “voting rights the test case of his tenure” — and Holder opened up a new plank on that front earlier today, via the NYT:
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday urged states to repeal laws that prohibit felons from voting, a move that would restore the right to vote to millions of people.
The call was mostly symbolic — Mr. Holder has no authority to enact these changes himself — but it marked the attorney general’s latest effort to eliminate laws that he says disproportionately keep minorities from the polls. “It is unwise, it is unjust, and it is not in keeping with our democratic values,” Mr. Holder said at civil rights conference at Georgetown University. These laws deserve to be not only reconsidered, but repealed.” …
Nearly every state prohibits inmates from voting while in prison. In four of them — Florida, Iowa, Kentucky and Virginia — felons are barred from the polls for life unless they receive clemency from the governor. The rest of the country’s laws vary. Some state restore voting rights after a prison sentence is complete. Others require a waiting period. Some have complicated processes for felons to re-register to vote.
My natural inclination on allowing felons to vote, at least on the state and down-ticket level, is to defer to federalism, although it’s most definitely something worth discussing (Sen. Rand Paul certainly has plenty of thoughts on the issue). I have rather a lot of difficulty, however, taking it on good faith from the guy who has made it his personal mission to flat-out persecute states who have the audacity to try and deter the many well-documented incidents of voter fraud with simple voter-ID requirements, what the Supreme Court says be damned (and don’t even get me started on the hypocrisy of his ostensible minority-boosting goals when his own department has also made tamping down on school choice another of their major action-items).
-——Mr. Holder has no authority to enact these changes himself -——
Well.... That has not stopped these criminals before....
Expect a EO soon....from king zero....
This sounds to me like he is saying that this will be another law he will refuse to enforce. Democrat county clerks will continue to allow anybody to vote without fear of reprisals.
I cannot think of one good reason for doing so. But perhaps if I were a democrat, I could think of at least 101.
That’s often that first free “hit” of the dope. You know, they just give it to you to get you hooked. Then comes the demands later when you can’t get along without it.
A majority of the STATES’ problems with this rampant tyrannical Federal Government is due to money. If they don’t take their money, learn to live without it, the STATES can tell the Feds to go pound sand in most cases. This is particularly true for schools.
States should not accept money from the federal gangsta...and we should stop paying the fed gandta anything..I would bet if we dried up their funds they would attack us militarily.
They should all be arrested for fraud.
I personally feel the founders had it right that only land owners and males should have the right to vote.
40 acres and more.
Holder is only preparing for his own future and hoping that when (if ever) he gets out of prison, he will once again be allowed to vote.
IMO, he should NEVER get out of prison.
He just wants to vote in the future and ensure criminal blacks continue to vote for rats and communists... which are the same thing in reality.
Obviously they’re going to vote for democrats!
NAACP Spearheads Voter Drive in Prisons
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355832/posts
If murderers, rapists, and child molesters voted overwhelmingly for republicans, does anyone honestly think the NAACP would be spending time and resources registering them them to vote?
They could try..
Now, if we still can't trust them with the vote or with firearms, then they should still be in prison.
You are not alone.
Once the time is served, you should be a free man again.
Not surprising future felons are a big voting block for democrats!!
So do you also think once a child molester serves his time he should be able to teach elementary students!!!
Only if you become a felon, Mr. Holder, will I consider restoring voting rights of felons.
Worse than that. The felons will be used as thugs in protests, rallies, meetings, etc. It is part of the communist/fascist playbook. They will toe the line or risk going back to prison.
I would venture to say that Republicans are thin on the ground in prison. Not unheard of, perhaps not rare - but certainly unusual.And why wouldn’t it be that way? Republicans as a party stand for the absolute legitimacy of private ownership of property as a matter of principle. Democrats, not so much.
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